[OSM-talk] Server slowness

[SteveC]

* @ 16/01/07 12:58:26 PM osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk wrote:
> On 1/16/07, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott at mgras.net> wrote:
> >
> >Martin Spott wrote:
> >
> >> I don't insist on hosting the resulting road network in a PostGIS
> >> database, instead I'd be happy if OSM would do that for me - as long as
> >> I could pull a dump that matches OGC requirements any time I want.
> >
> >I think I've forgotten one point that should not get neglected: In such
> >a case we'd need to feed changes back to the OSM DB from time to time -
> >for example if someone touches up a certain area with GRASS or some
> >other tool,
> 
> 
> I don't know anything about GIS standards at all.. are there any standard
> mechanisms/protocols/formats or whatever for describing changesests in
> geographic data? The main problem as I see it with feeding back data here is

Yeah it's called WFS-T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Feature_Service

> maintaining references to the OSM primitives being edited -- this is needed
> so a proper history can be maintained (and eventually presented). If there
> is some nice way of handling changes, then a conversion filter could
> presumably be applied to put the changes back into OSM... if not then there
> may need to be more hackery.

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have fun,

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